Outcomes of pregnancy complicated by thyroid disease

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-242

  Harborne, Lyndal R ^a,d   Alexander, Claire E ^b   Thomson, Andrew J ^c   O'Reilly, Denis St J ^a   Greer, Ian A ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus; Outcome; Pregnancy; Thyroid; Treatment

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CARBIMAZOLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROXINE;

EID: 20544451291     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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